[Microsound-announce] London - Sprawl: June bulletin

[douglas benford]

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S P R A W L June 2008 bulletin
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Thanks to everyone who came to SonicRecycler4
last month - an extraordinary evening!
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NEXT MONTH:

Horatio Oratorio

A concert & sound installation by Aleksander Kolkowski
aka Recording Angels with Federico Reuben - live electronics

ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Kolkowski

FEDERICO REUBEN
<http://www.myspace.com/freuben>http://www.myspace.com/freuben

"There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are
dreamt of in our philosophy...I am a graphophone and my mother
was a phonograph."

Charles Tainter's first recorded words on his 
newly developed wax cylinder Graphophone,
the successor to Thomas Alva Edison's tinfoil Phonograph, in 1881.

Horatio Oratorio is an audio-visual exploration through the early history
of recorded sound. It uses as it's libretto, the first recorded utterances
transcribed onto metal and wax and reproduced by styli, diaphragms
and horns. The era of recorded sound as material object, whether
cylinder, disc, wire, magnetic tape or CD, has been overtaken by the
rise of the digital file. Horatio Oratorio sings of the transformation of
sound into object and it's return into the ether.

The earliest sound reproducing technologies and rare mechanical-acoustic
string instruments are here combined with vintage and custom-made
electronics and state-of-the-art digital sound transformation in a unique
liaison between the contemporary and the obsolete.

A multitude of antique wax cylinder phonographs, gramophones, stroh
violins and a cornucopia of ornate horns adorn the performance space
and are played or manually operated during the concert, using specially
made wax cylinder and disc recordings. These include recreations of
some of the earliest speech and music transcriptions known to exist.

The sound installation, featuring the machines and suspended
horns will run autonomously.

Information: <contact at recording-angels.info>

Co-produced by Sonic Arts Network's EXPO
and the PRSF Live Connections.

In association with Sprawl

A Wire-supported event .
<http://www.thewire.co.uk>http://www.thewire.co.uk

Thurs. 10th & Fri. 11th July, 2008.
*Friday event closes with a party and 78rpm DJing session in the Arena*

Installation opens at 6pm, Performances start at 8pm.
Installation continues 16th - 19th July, 6pm - 12am  (Sat.19th from 8pm).
NB closed sunday/monday/tuesday

Tickets:
Day membership is £5 on Wed. & thurs. & £10 on Fri. & Sat.

The Arena
Shunt Vaults,
Joiner Street,
London Bridge SE1.
(entrance inside London Bridge tube)
<http://www.shunt.co.uk>http://www.shunt.co.uk

funded by PRSF Live Connections

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other UPCOMING PERFORMANCES etc
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JUNE 21
IRIS GARRELFS live
with Rabbitt, Ampersand
from 8pm, £3
Utrophia, 136 Tanners Hill,
Deptford, London SE8, UK

JULY 3
DOUGLAS BENFORD live
with Alexander Wendt, Janek Schaefer, Jasper Leyland
6.30pm. 108 Pieces Demolition
LABAN Creekside, London, SE8 3DZ, UK
http://www.laban.org, http://12X50.com

JULY 5
IRIS GARRELFS live
Sonic Arts Network Expo, Brighton UK

JULY 29
IRIS GARRELFS residency with Urbania
Grizedale Art, Coniston, Cumbria, UK

SI-CUT.DB / d. benford:
* new douglas benford CD album
due on 12X50 / carbon series, late summer

** Join the Sprawl Facebook group **

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best wishes

Iris Garrelfs
http://www.irisgarrelfs.com
http://www.myspace.com/irisgarrelfs

si-cut.db [d.benford]
http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk
http://blog.myspace.com/sicutdb
http://www.myspace.com/sicutdb

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